Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mauritania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Jesper Dahlbäck to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Magazine. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Maleditus Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
Pantytec,
Gerry Rafferty,
Don Cherry,
Television,
Dual Sessions,
Make Up,
Roy Ayers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Technova,
Boredoms,
Mantronix,
Radiohead,
MC5,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rapeman,
Japan,
The Gories,
Roger Hodgson,
Schoolly D,
H. Thieme,
Gastr Del Sol,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The J.B.'s,
Patti Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Amon Düül II,
Lalann,
Marc Almond,
John Lydon,
Yaz,
Todd Rundgren,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Womack,
Flash Fearless,
Skaos,
Grey Daturas,
Joensuu 1685,
Excepter,
Newcleus,
FM Einheit,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Moon,
Chris & Cosey,
Oneida,
Traffic Nightmare,
Amon Düül,
Thee Headcoats,
The Cramps,
Throbbing Gristle,
Arthur Verocai,
OOIOO,
Ice-T,
The Gladiators,
New Age Steppers,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.